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James Roden is glad to be alive today after a very difficult diagnosis of advanced esophageal cancer. He is aware that the prognosis for patients with this type of cancer is not very good. “If I wouldn’t have had the chemo and radiation therapy at the cancer center before my surgery, it would have been a different story,” Roden says

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Cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer) is often labeled a silent disease because many times the signs and symptoms can go unnoticed until the cancer is in the advanced stage. Even when there are early signs and symptoms, they may be vague and easily attributed to another disease.

The Regional Cancer Center (RCC), a joint venture of Saint Vincent Health System and UPMC Hamot, has been bringing expert cancer care close to home for patients in the northwestern Pennsylvania region since 1987 and is affiliated with UPMC CancerCenter, one of the largest integrated community networks of cancer physicians and health care specialists in the country. more»